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March 2024 - Myanmar Special Weapons News
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- Fleeing war and hardship, Myanmar youth seek jobs in South Korea Radio Free Asia 30 Mar 2024 -- War, economic hardship and now the threat of military conscription by the junta are driving young people in Myanmar to seek jobs overseas, with South Korea being a favored destination.
- Ethnic army seizes major trade route on Myanmar-Chinese border Radio Free Asia 29 Mar 2024 -- An ethnic army seized five military junta camps near the Myanmar-Chinese border, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
- Rohingya activists call for more control of aid money Radio Free Asia 28 Mar 2024 -- Rohingya Muslim activists representing fellow refugees forced out of Myanmar and into "prison-like" camps in Bangladesh said in Washington on Thursday that foreign aid to the camps would go further if some of it was given directly to refugee-run groups.
- Russian Deputy Defence Minister Aleksandr Fomin holds talks with Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Russia MoD 28 Mar 2024 -- On 28 March 2024, in Naypyidaw, the Republic of Myanmar, the Russian delegation headed by Deputy Russian Defence Minister Colonel General Aleksandr Fomin, held talks with Chairman of the State Administrative Council / Prime Minister / Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services of the Republic of the Union Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
- Junta helicopter crashes during training exercise in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 27 Mar 2024 -- A junta-owned military helicopter crashed in northern Myanmar, according to a statement by officials on Wednesday.
- Killings of junta military recruiters rise to 17, tripling in last week Radio Free Asia 27 Mar 2024 -- At least 17 local officials carrying out the junta's conscription efforts have been killed since a draft law was enacted early last month, according to rebel officials and residents.
- Report: Despite its displeasure, China maintains sway with Myanmar junta Radio Free Asia 27 Mar 2024 -- China's apparent unhappiness with Myanmar's military junta has created an opportunity for an international consensus on how to address the country's post-coup political crisis, a Brussels-based think tank said in a report on Wednesday.
- 90 junta soldiers surrender to rebel army on Myanmar border Radio Free Asia 26 Mar 2024 -- Ninety junta soldiers surrendered to an ethnic army on Monday in Myanmar, residents told Radio Free Asia.
- Myanmar's junta leader says nationwide elections may not be possible Radio Free Asia 25 Mar 2024 -- Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing says Myanmar will hold elections for the first time since the military seized power in 2021 if the junta can bring peace and stability to the country, Russian media reported.
- Thailand's first aid convoy arrives in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 25 Mar 2024 -- Thailand's government started aid deliveries to Myanmar on Monday along a newly developed humanitarian corridor to assist civilians affected by fighting.
- Rebel groups kill officials recruiting for Myanmar's junta Radio Free Asia 23 Mar 2024 -- Rebel groups around Myanmar have killed at least six officials documenting draft-eligible residents this week, undermining the junta's efforts to roll out the country's military conscription law, sources said Friday.
- Airstrikes and shelling have killed 70 civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine state Radio Free Asia 22 Mar 2024 -- More than 70 civilians were killed in seven western Myanmar townships during the first three weeks of March as the junta sent airstrikes and artillery fire into communities where it recently lost control, local residents told Radio Free Asia.
- Junta troops flee flighting into Thailand from Myanmar's Kayin state Radio Free Asia 22 Mar 2024 -- Two groups of junta soldiers crossed into Thailand from Myanmar's Kayin state this week to escape fighting with ethnic Karen rebels, several sources told Radio Free Asia on Thursday.
- Myanmar junta returns bodies of Rohingya conscripts to families Radio Free Asia 22 Mar 2024 -- The bodies of seven conscripts forced to join Myanmar's junta army were returned to their families, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday. The recruits were members of the Rohingya community, which has been frequently persecuted by the military for its heritage and Islamic faith.
- Myanmar's junta shuts down public hospital in wartorn township Radio Free Asia 21 Mar 2024 -- Junta authorities closed a public hospital and several private clinics in a wartorn area of Myanmar's western Rakhine state and ordered doctors and other medical personnel to relocate to the state capital, leaving residents without access to healthcare.
- Junta navy arrests around 80 Rohingya off Myanmar coast Radio Free Asia 21 Mar 2024 -- Myanmar's junta navy arrested around 80 Rohingya attempting to flee the country by boat, residents who witnessed the event told Radio Free Asia on Thursday.
- No bids at auction for Myanmar democracy icon Suu Kyi's home Radio Free Asia 20 Mar 2024 -- A junta court-ordered auction of jailed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's historic home in Myanmar's Yangon region concluded with no buyers, sources said Wednesday, after the bidding price was set at more than 300 billion kyats, or about US$90 million.
- Resistance groups kill and threaten Myanmar junta's conscription supporters Radio Free Asia 20 Mar 2024 -- Rebel defense groups killed two administrators in vigilante slayings and are threatening the lives of more, according to resistance organizations.
- 'Tide Is Turning' Against Myanmar's Junta, UN Special Rapporteur Says VOA 20 Mar 2024 -- Myanmar's ruling junta "is losing" its war against a coalition of domestic forces but still remains highly dangerous, according to a U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in that country.
- Former Home of Aung San Suu Kyi Fails to Sell at Auction VOA 20 Mar 2024 -- The house where deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent more than a decade under house arrest was put up for auction Wednesday - but attracted no bidders.
- UN says 'alarmed' by deadly Myanmar air strikes against Rohingya Muslims Press TV 19 Mar 2024 -- UN Secretary-General António Guterres is "alarmed" by reports of ongoing airstrikes in Myanmar that have killed more than 20 civilians in Rakhine State's Minbya township on Monday, a UN spokesperson said.
- Hitmen kill Christian leader in Myanmar's Kachin state Radio Free Asia 19 Mar 2024 -- Gunmen in northern Myanmar assassinated a religious leader in a Christian community in what sources close to the man's family are calling a targeted attack.
- Village heads quit in anger over military recruitment in Myanmar's Rakhine state Radio Free Asia 19 Mar 2024 -- More than 20 administrators of villages in western Myanmar's Rakhine state have resigned after the junta ordered them to choose residents for military service and to form militias amid preparations for nationwide conscription, sources with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday.
- UN Human Rights Council 55: UK Statement on Myanmar UK FCDO 19 Mar 2024 -- Statement for the Special Rapporteur report on Myanmar, as delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French.
- UN rights expert urges global action to halt Myanmar junta atrocities UN News 19 Mar 2024 -- The UN independent human rights expert on Myanmar called on the international community on Tuesday to take strong, coordinated action to protect civilians from ongoing atrocities committed by the military junta's forces.
- INTERVIEW: Myanmar's junta is weakening, but world needs to cut off weapons, funds Radio Free Asia 18 Mar 2024 -- Tom Andrews has served as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar since 2020. The former U.S. Congressman for Maine is the author of papers examining the military's claim as the government of Myanmar following its February 2021 coup d'etat and international arms networks that enable rights violations by the junta in the Southeast Asian nation.
- Irregularities taint military draft lottery in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Radio Free Asia 18 Mar 2024 -- Authorities in southwestern Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region have commenced lotteries to select who will be drafted into the military from among lists of draft-eligible youths, but residents say the process is tainted by irregularities.
- Number of students taking key exam has plunged amid war in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 18 Mar 2024 -- The number of high school students registered to take a key exam in Myanmar has plummeted nearly 87% from the academic year before the military took control in a February 2021 coup d'etat, showing the devastating impact of war on education.
- 'Piles of corpses' left after Myanmar junta attacks village Radio Free Asia 18 Mar 2024 -- A junta aerial bombardment killed and injured dozens in western Myanmar, residents told Radio Free Asia.
- Blood Money launches campaign to ban aviation fuel to Myanmar junta Radio Free Asia 15 Mar 2024 -- Myanmar civil society organization Blood Money has launched a campaign to stop the global sale of aviation fuel to the country's junta, citing the deadly impact of military airstrikes on the civilian population.
- Junta regains control of still-smoldering city in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 15 Mar 2024 -- A 10-day battle in central Myanmar has left one city in ashes, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
- Military conscription poised to start in Myanmar's Yangon Radio Free Asia 15 Mar 2024 -- In the clearest sign yet that a military draft will soon go into effect in Myanmar, junta authorities are summoning draft-eligible youths and taking information door-to-door throughout the largest city of Yangon, residents said Friday.
- Video Shows Rohingya Forcibly Recruited Into Myanmar Military VOA 14 Mar 2024 -- VOA has recently obtained video footage depicting Rohingya from Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps being trained as soldiers in Rakhine state, the scene of heavy fighting between Myanmar's military junta and ethnic armed groups.
- Indiscriminate shelling kills mothers, children in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 13 Mar 2024 -- An artillery attack in northern Myanmar killed five civilians, residents told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday. The victims included two women in their 30s and three children in Kachin state's Bhamo township.
- UN and partners seek $852.4m to support Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts UNHCR 13 Mar 2024 -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with other humanitarian partners, today called on the international community to redouble efforts to protect and assist Rohingya refugees and their host communities. Bangladesh is generously hosting nearly a million Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled Myanmar seven years ago.
- Carl Skau: People of Myanmar need more from the international community as situation deteriorates WFP 13 Mar 2024 -- The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is rapidly deteriorating. Conflict is intensifying and humanitarian access is increasingly restricted, while funding is falling short. More than 2.7 million people are displaced and one in every four is at risk of acute food insecurity.
- 2024 Rohingya Joint Response Plan: UK statement UK FCDO 13 Mar 2024 -- On 13 March the UK announced a further £5.2 million to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, at the launch of the 2024 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis in Geneva.
- Arakan Army captures Myanmar township bordering Chinese deep sea port Radio Free Asia 12 Mar 2024 -- The Arakan Army has captured a key township near a major Chinese special economic zone in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, the ethnic rebel group said Tuesday, in the latest setback for the country's military junta in the country's three-year civil war.
- Myanmar junta refuses dozens of nationals facing deportation by India Radio Free Asia 12 Mar 2024 -- Myanmar's junta has refused to accept dozens of nationals facing deportation by the Indian government for illegally entering the country, their relatives said Tuesday.
- Week-long battle in Myanmar's Shan state displaces over 110,000 Radio Free Asia 12 Mar 2024 -- Week-long fighting between the junta and an ethnic army is responsible for mass displacement in Myanmar, locals told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday.
- Videos appear to show Myanmar military training Rohingyas Radio Free Asia 11 Mar 2024 -- Videos have emerged on social media in recent days that appear to show junta personnel providing military training to ethnic Muslim Rohingyas at a site in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, amid reports of forced recruitment around the country.
- Indiscriminate shelling kills family in western Myanmar Radio Free Asia 11 Mar 2024 -- Heavy artillery in Myanmar's west killed seven people over the weekend, locals told Radio Free Asia.
- Kachin offensive opens new front for overstretched Myanmar junta forces Radio Free Asia 10 Mar 2024 -- While the Three Brotherhood Alliance move to consolidate territorial gains in northern Shan state, and the Arakan Army continues their attacks across Rakhine state, a new offensive against Myanmar's junta has begun in Kachin state this month.
- Kachin army storms northern Myanmar, taking 14 camps Radio Free Asia 08 Mar 2024 -- A rebel army in Myanmar seized over a dozen junta camps in the north and forced the surrender of an entire battalion, officials told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
- Junta bombardment strands 1,000 civilians in Shan state township Radio Free Asia 07 Mar 2024 -- More than 1,000 civilians are trapped amid heavy clashes between Myanmar's military and ethnic Pa-O rebels in southern Shan state's Hsiheng township, which the junta has been trying to retake since Monday, according to residents.
- Myanmar's Arakan Army draws closer to region's capital Radio Free Asia 07 Mar 2024 -- An ethnic rebel army captured a city near the capital of western Myanmar's Rakhine state, locals told Radio Free Asia on Thursday.
- Myanmar's junta imposes multiple death sentences on activists Radio Free Asia 07 Mar 2024 -- Lawyers and human rights experts in Myanmar have condemned the junta's liberal use of the death penalty, including several recent cases where anti-junta activists received multiple death sentences.
- Thai seminar with exiled Myanmar leaders signals shift in stance, say analysts Radio Free Asia 06 Mar 2024 -- Thailand's parliament held its first meeting with members of Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government - made up of former civilian leaders ousted in the 2021 coup - to discuss democracy and security issues along the Thai-Myanmar border, attendees said.
- Fight for Myanmar jade mines leaves one dead, 100 homes torched Radio Free Asia 06 Mar 2024 -- A three-day junta raid left one man dead and 100 homes destroyed in northern Myanmar, residents told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
- Forced recruitment underway in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region Radio Free Asia 06 Mar 2024 -- Junta authorities in southwestern Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region are compiling lists of draft-eligible residents amid a roll-out of the country's conscription law, sources told RFA Burmese.
- Junta imposes martial law in rebel-controlled Shan state townships Radio Free Asia 05 Mar 2024 -- Myanmar's junta has declared martial law in three northern Shan state townships seized by ethnic rebels during an ongoing offensive, prompting concern from residents who fear the military is planning a push to retake the areas.
- Junta airstrike hits passenger bus in Myanmar, killing woman Radio Free Asia 05 Mar 2024 -- Junta forces dropped an explosive on a passenger bus, killing an elderly woman, locals told Radio Free Asia Tuesday.
- Allegations of Uranium, Plutonium in Myanmar Puzzle Experts VOA 05 Mar 2024 -- Allegations of a Myanmar-Yakuza arms deal involving nuclear materials have raised alarms in Myanmar's rebel-held Shan state and confounded scientists, who have long been aware of raw uranium in the region but say they have no idea how it could have been processed to weapons-grade material in the remote area.
- Infamous column of Myanmar junta troops killed 11 in weeklong rampage Radio Free Asia 04 Mar 2024 -- The military junta's notorious Ogre Column cut off body parts - including heads - during a weeklong rampage through a Sagaing region township that left 11 men dead, residents and members of local People's Defense Forces told Radio Free Asia.
- Arakan Army vows to fight for total control of Myanmar's Rakhine state Radio Free Asia 04 Mar 2024 -- The ethnic Arakan Army won't lay down arms until it has liberated all of western Myanmar's Rakhine state from military rule, an official said Monday.
- Myanmar junta, resistance officials attend China-brokered peace talks Radio Free Asia 04 Mar 2024 -- A Myanmar rebel alliance and junta officials discussed reopening the border and preserving a ceasefire at peace talks brokered by China, an Arakan Army official said Monday.
- Myanmar's Youth Leaders Fear Conscription Law VOA 02 Mar 2024 -- Myanmar's youth leaders are determined to avoid the military's conscription law that could see them fight against the very resistance they are part of.
- Burmese city of Mongmit left ravaged after months of battles Radio Free Asia 01 Mar 2024 -- Months of intense battles between anti-junta groups and junta forces have ravaged the city of Mongmit in Myanmar's Shan state, resulting in widespread displacement, lootings and arson, according to locals.
- Junta troops abduct 40 relatives of Muslim camp residents who fled conscription Radio Free Asia 01 Mar 2024 -- Junta troops in western Myanmar's Rakhine state have beaten and abducted 40 family members of Muslim displaced camp residents who escaped being conscripted into military training, sources said Friday.
- Myanmar: Unbearable levels of suffering and cruelty UN News 01 Mar 2024 -- The crisis in Myanmar is a "never-ending nightmare" for the country's people happening far away from the international spotlight, UN rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on Friday.
- UN Human Rights Council 55: UK Statement on Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar UK FCDO 01 Mar 2024 -- Interactive Dialogue: High Commissioner's Update on Myanmar. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French.
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